Southampton, 06 November 2013. Finally I got to receive my CIEEM Medal at the Institute’s annual conference on 6 November 2013 in Southampton. The award was presented by CIEEM President John Box and the citation read out by past-President and long-time...
Sochi, Russian Federation, 01 November 2013. I have been to nine of the ten editions of the World Conference on Sport and Environment, dating back to the original event in Lausanne in July 1995 (I only missed the second conference in Kuwait City in 1997). They have...
Sochi, Russian Federation, 31 October 2013. Less than two months following his election as the 9th President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach took the opportunity to give the opening address at the 10th World Conference on Sport and Environment. ...
London 17 October 2013. Today I attended a seminar hosted by the British Film Institute focusing on sustainability in the film industry. I was struck by many parallels from the event sector: there is a new sustainability management system standard BS 8909, which was...
Le Luc en Provence, 20 September 2013. This week I have been chairing sessions at an international workshop on the conservation of Hermann’s tortoise. This was the species I studied over 30 years ago in southern France and it was hugely gratifying all this time later...
Buenos Aires, 7 September 2013. Today I watched in fascination as my Olympic journey completed a full circle with the election of Tokyo as host city for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It took me back to that fateful day in July 2005 when the London bid...
On 17-19 July 2013, I hosted the first leg of an international study tour by the Incheon Sustainability Commission. The Commission is responsible for developing a sustainability programme for the 17th Asian Games, which take place in Incheon, South Korea in September...
On Thursday 11 July I met up with Phil Askew, the Legacy Corporation’s man in charge of parklands and public realm to have a look round the former Olympic Park. For years we had talked about the legacy transformation without much thought to what it would look like –...
The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), the professional membership body for ecologists and environmental managers, has named me as the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Institute Medal. This is a huge honour, all the more precious for...
I was announced as the winner of the inaugural award for ‘Chartered Environmentalist of the Year’ at the Sustain Awards in London on 5 March 2013. This specific award is sponsored by the Society for the Environment and is drawn from nominations by each of the 23...
